How  Wide 
Is  Your  Circle 


China  has  thousands  of  such  nxsomen  workers.  The  China  Y.W.C.A. 
hopes  soon  to  have  secretaries  for  industrial  work. 


Foreign  Department,  National  Board 
The  Young  Womens  Christian  Associations 
600  Lexington  Avenue 
New  York  City 


Miss  Michi  Kawai  could  not  carry  her  7vork  as  National  General 
Secretary  of  the  Y.  IV.  C.A.  of  fapan  were  it  not  for  the  unwaver- 
ing support  of  the  seventeen  fapanese  and  an  equal  number  of 
American  secretaries. 


The  First  Conthiental  Y.  IV.C.A.  Conference  in  South  America 
was  held  last  year.  The  presence  of  leading  women  from 
Argentina,  Brazil,  Uruguay  and  Chili  was  an  evidence  of  the 
interest  these  women  are  taking  in  the  -welfare  of  girls  affected  by 
the  changing  economic  conditions  of  South  America. 


Use  this  poster  on  your  bulletin  board  dur- 
ing World  Fellowship  Week  of  Prayer 
Cut  on  dotted  line  and  insert  your  announce- 
ments of  meetings 

Summer  1920 


Miss  D.  M.  Maya  Das,  principal  of  Ninnaird  College,  Lahore, 
has  accepted  appointment  as  Associate  National  General  Secretary 
for  India,  Burma,  and  Ceylon  Y.W.C.A. 


Secrelartes 

China 

India 

Japan 

Soulk  America 

North  American 

78  . 

. 14  . 

17  . 

13 

Native 

34 

5 

17 

. 3 

Other  Nationalities 

5 . 

. 28  . 

1 . 

1 

More  Americans  Needed 

6 . 

10 

12 

. 12 

City  Assoaattons 
Organized 

6 . 

. 58  . 

4 . 

2 

Preorganization 

4 

. ? 

. 1 

. 3 

Vernacular  . 

61  . 

Student  Associations 

, 72  . 

. 42 

. 30 

(Foyer-1 ) 

City  and  Student  members  6,000  . 

10,192  . 

4,500  . 

1,375  • 

France 

Secretaries 

64 

Native  Workers 
25 

Centers  * 

23 

Belgium  . 

11  . 

. 6 

. 6 

Czecho-Slovakia 

10 

16 

4 

Italy 

15  . 

. 23  . . 

. 14 

Near  East 

18 

1 

10 

Poland  . . ' . 

8 . 

. (10  . 

. 4 

Roumania  . 

3 

(30  Polish  Grey  Samaritans 
1 

Russia 

. 10  . 

.1  . . 

. 2 

Lithuania 

1 

survey 

• Under  centers  is  included  headquarters  offices,  hostess  houses,  umeteries.  rest  huts,  fosters  and  girls'  clubs,  student  hostels  and  clubs, 
demonstraiioH  Associations,  summer  camps,  and  cooperation  with  relief  organuations  and  the  V.  IV.C.A.  of  other  counters. 


World’s  Y.  W.  C.  A. 

“The  thread  of  Christian  fellowship  which  is  being  woven 
into  the  fabric  of  the  nations  is  the  thread  on  which  depends  the 
harmony  and  strength  of  the  finished  world  pattern.” 

When  you  and  I join  the  Y.W.C.A.  branch  in  our  college  or 
community,  we  are  immedi^ely  united  with  nearly  a million 
Christian  women  and  girls  in  forty  countries.  They  and  we 
belong  to  the  World’s  Young  Womens  Christian  Association. 
We  are  united  by  a bond  more  powerful  than  the  mere  accident 
of  birthplace;  we  are  united  by  the  bond  of  kinship  in  Christ. 

We  have  a World’s  Committee  composed  of  representatives 
from  twenty-two  countries,  in  proportion  to  membership.  This 
Committee  not  only  unites  all  the  Associations,  but  serves  as  a 
clearing  house  for  all  appeals  and  questions  that  affect  the 
Y.W.C.A.  in  more  than  one  country.  If  a new  country  wishes 
to  organize  a Y.W.C.A.,  the  Worm  s Committee  decides  which 
of  the  already  organized  National  Associations  should  be  called 
on  to  help. 

The  World’s  Committee  keeps  in  touch  with  all  the  countries 
through  its  periodical.  The  Women’s  International  Quarterly; 
and  through  meetings  every  two  vears  of  the  World’s  Com- 
mittee, and  every  month  of  a smaller  group  called  the  World’s 
Executive  Committee.  Also,  every  four  years  a World’s  Con- 
ference is  called.  This  past  June,  there  met  in  Switzerland  an 

-International  Commission 
and  the  World’s  Committee 
with  a hundred  and  twenty- 
five  delegates  from  twenty- 
two  countries. 

Besides  these  external 
bonds  of  fellowship  we  are 
even  more  closely  drawn 
together  by  our  annual 
World’s  Week  of  Prayer. 
During  the  third  week  of 
November,  as  the  sun  rises 
from  the  Pacific  and  journ- 
eys seven  times  around  the 
earth,  prayer  shall  rise  like 
clouds  of  incense  from 
countless  hearts  where 
Christ  is  enshrined.  We 
and  they  shall  meet  with 
the  Prince  of  the  Kingdom 
of  God, — to  study  His  plans, 
to  receive  our  task,  and  to  be 
invested  with  power  to  serve 
worthily  in  whatsoever  post 
we  occupy. 


Tht  nuomen  and  girls  of  Russia  are 
’waiting for  the  Y.IV.C.A.  to  come  back, 
{with  its  helpfulness  and  inspiration 


